A Contract with God: and Other Tenement Stories
By Will Eisner
1978
Available now from Islington Libraries
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The first comic book to market itself as a "graphic novel" A Contract with God finds legend Will Eisner fictionalising his own experiences and stories he heard growing up to paint a vivid picture of life in the Bronx in the early 20th Century. With black and white inks that seem to spill out of the page spinning out stories of faith, sexual awakening, fear, poverty, riches and death this is a chance to see a fledging medium's first baby steps into maturity told with a force that can still hold a reader in it's sway.
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Further reading: Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master, Last Day in Vietnam, The Will Eisner Companion, Violent Cases, Wilson,
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